Bible Verses About Music

Praise ye Jehovah. Praise ye the name of Jehovah; Praisehim, O ye servants of Jehovah,

Ye that stand in the house of Jehovah, In the courts of the house of our God.

Praise ye Jehovah; for Jehovah is good: Sing praises unto his name; for it is pleasant.

By the rivers of Babylon, There we sat down, yea, we wept, When we remembered Zion.

Upon the willows in the midst thereof We hanged up our harps.

For there they that led us captive required of us songs, And they that wasted us required of us mirth, saying, Sing us one of the songs of Zion.

How shall we sing Jehovah’s song In a foreign land?

If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, Let my right hand forget her skill.

Let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth, If I remember thee not; If I prefer not Jerusalem Above my chief joy.

I will sing a new song unto thee, O God: Upon a psaltery of ten strings will I sing praises unto thee.

Praise ye Jehovah. Sing unto Jehovah a new song, And his praise in the assembly of the saints.

Let Israel rejoice in him that made him: Let the children of Zion be joyful in their King.

Let them praise his name in the dance: Let them sing praises unto him with timbrel and harp.

Letthe high praises of God be in their mouth, And a two-edged sword in their hand;

Praise ye Jehovah. Praise God in his sanctuary: Praise him in the firmament of his power.

Praise him for his mighty acts: Praise him according to his excellent greatness.

Praise him with trumpet sound: Praise him with psaltery and harp.

Praise him with timbrel and dance: Praise him with stringed instruments and pipe.

Praise him with loud cymbals: Praise him with high sounding cymbals.

Let everything that hath breath praise Jehovah. Praise ye Jehovah.

As one that taketh off a garment in cold weather, and as vinegar upon soda, So is he that singeth songs to a heavy heart.

I gathered me also silver and gold, and the treasure of kings and of the provinces; I gat me men-singers and women-singers, and the delights of the sons of men, musical instruments, and that of all sorts.

And whatsoever mine eyes desired I kept not from them; I withheld not my heart from any joy; for my heart rejoiced because of all my labor; and this was my portion from all my labor.

Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labor that I had labored to do; and, behold, all was vanity and a striving after wind, and there was no profit under the sun.

And the harp and the lute, the tabret and the pipe, and wine, are in their feasts; but they regard not the work of Jehovah, neither have they considered the operation of his hands.